Fermi's Paradox and the Psychology of Galactic Empires

source:: Fermi's Paradox and the Psychology of Galactic Empires | Matthew O´Dowd | TEDxTUWien - YouTube via:: youtube algo after [[Singularity Summit with Peter Thiel]], [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]], [[Aubrey de Grey]]]] topic:: [[Fermi Paradox]]

Notes:

• His voice reminds me of [[Tim Minchin]], a complete aside though...

• His parents listened to docus about space on the radio, it was regular thing on sundays. I'd like to do this for my own kids!

• It seems that life happens quickly, and with great probability when the conditions are right" - Matthew O'Dowd #quote #astrophysics #Life

  • "when the conditions are right" really makes this a tautology? Although, it could have been that even despite conditions being right, life might not emerge, it is not a given that it happens, even though our universe seems to work that way.
  • Not quite sure what to make of this, it is something about the [[anthropic principle]] I find unsatisfying and inelegantly self-referential, tautological.

• [[The Great Filter]]

• 13:13 - Sociological, psychological evolution maybe leads to you are inclined to enter into a state of galaxywide harmony, with a perfectly enforced prime directive - you stay hidden.

• Maybe they turn inwards, virtual worlds, loose interest in the outwards galaxy

This prompted my idea of a [[t.voluntary great filter]], although… the voluntary filter is not one of destruction, just abstinence of intergalactic communion.

• Maybe too primitive, maybe we are to primitive to perceive a galactic empire's sociology?
• Hard to escape the explanation of [[The Great Filter]], but: we are running out of time to kill ourselves before we have the capability to make a mark (that is detectable on cosmic scale, for other civilizations)
• Thinks we have that filter behind us.
• What if we're early? What if we forge the path to lead that helping hand to anyone that may come after?

Quotes:

• [[q.either we are alone in the universe or we are not]]
• [[It seems that life happens quickly, and with great probability when the conditions are right]]
• [[The universe should be full of, at least, slime covered planets]]
• [[Everything just looks eerily natural - On no signals of life being found in the universe]]
• [[There may not be anyone to show us the path, and that means that we find it ourselves, that we make the track ourself]]

See also:: [[Sloan spectrum]] See also:: [[Tabby's Star]]

• star in [[kepler sample]] that is dimming in weird ways - theory alien megastructure (not likely). Other explanation has been found